Site AdministratorWith three teams in the top 15 of the preseason USCHO.com poll and seven members of the Preseason All-USCHO first and second teams, the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association is arguable the strongest conference in Division III hockey. King of the Hill Even though St. Norbert won their fourth consecutive NCHA regular season title and third … Read more
Cornell head coach Mike Schafer has been suspended for one game for conduct occurring after last Saturday’s game between the Big Red and Michigan State, ECACHL commissioner Steve Hagwell announced Thursday. The incident in question took place after the Spartans’ 4-3 win, as the Michigan State players remained on the ice to celebrate. Several objects … Read more
Ivy rivals converge for an important early-season ECACHL contest in Saturday’s 4 p.m. ET broadcast.
One of the biggest surprises in the ECACHL last weekend was the success that the Princeton Tigers enjoyed, winning their season opener on the road in South Bend against the Fighting Irish. The Tigers were outshot 17-2 in the first period of Friday night’s 5-3 win over the Irish, largely due to the amount of … Read more
Short in stature but big in heart, grit and leadership, twin brothers Tony and Brad Zancanaro make quite an impression on-ice and off, Joe Haggerty finds.
Team USA faced off against a team of the ECACHL’s finest in a game that packed more intensity and excitement than can be indicated by either the All-Star Game moniker or the 6-2 final score. The teams combined for sixteen penalties, including four pairs of matching minors, and the unpolished penalty kill of the ECACHL … Read more
The Xcel Energy Center, the site of the WCHA Final Five since 2001, will stay that way through at least 2011, under the terms of a five-year contract extension announced Tuesday. “We’re very excited about continuing our relationship with one of the premier college hockey conferences in the nation,” said Xcel Energy Center vice president … Read more
In their first-ever Hockey East contest, the Vermont Catamounts opened up a 5-0 first-period lead over host Northeastern. How’s that for a first impression? Jeff Corey and Peter Lenes scored two goals apiece after Dean Strong made it 1-0 a minute into the game and Vermont held on to win its first dip in Hockey … Read more
A pair of handy wins were enough to propel Colorado College to the top of the USCHO.com/CSTV Division I men’s poll, released Monday. Voters preferred CC with 30 of 40 first-place votes in the wake of the Tigers’ WCHA weekend sweep of Minnesota State, pushing CC up two spots to the top of the poll. … Read more
Brock Trotter, Denver’s then-leading scorer and the reigning WCHA Rookie of the Week, will miss the remainder of the season after sustaining a severed right Achilles tendon on a hit from North Dakota’s Matt Smaby during Friday night’s game between the Sioux and the Pioneers. Smaby’s check on Trotter came behind the UND goal, and … Read more
After a slow start in the first period, Brown (1-1) came back to upset No. 5 New Hampshire (4-1), 3-2, in their home opener on Sunday. Sophomore Hayley Moore’s goal 20 seconds into the second period gave Brown its first lead and freshman Kim McManus’ first career goal proved to be the game winner as … Read more
Vermont very rarely awards game pucks at the end of a hockey game. Saturday, following a 4-2 victory which gave the Catamounts a weekend sweep of a gusty Niagara squad, they did just that. Head coach Kevin Sneddon and his staff presented the game puck to goalkeeper Travis Russell, who recorded 22 saves in his … Read more
In the season opener for the Ivy League, the Harvard Crimson relied on the quick skates of junior forward Kevin Du and rode a three-goal third period en route to a 6-2 victory over Dartmouth. Du tallied two goals and two assists, including one for the highlight reels where he was hauled down from behind … Read more
Among the elite teams in the WCHA, sweeps do not come easily. Minnesota-Duluth proved that in no uncertain terms in skating past host Minnesota for a 6-0 victory. The Bulldogs (6-2-0, 6-2-0 WCHA), having found themselves in a hole after the previous night’s first period, attacked from the start. Freshman Michaela Lanzl scored the first … Read more
Just before Halloween, Brett Sterling and Marty Sertich look down right scary. It was the same old story for No. 3 Colorado College, which was led by a seven-point effort between its superstars and defeated Minnesota State 7-3. The road win gave the Tigers (7-1-0 overall, 2-0-0 WCHA) an early WCHA sweep and left MSU … Read more
The Western Michigan Broncos earned a weekend sweep of the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes, winning Saturday’s thriller 5-4. After being down 4-1 with three minutes left in the second period, the Broncos kept pressing to score the game’s next four goals. “The game was wild. It was a fast game. We got a bounce … Read more
With less than eight minutes remaining in the second period, Alaska-Anchorage had a chance to break a 1-1 tie when it was awarded a power play. But less than a minute later, it was No. 12 Wisconsin that stole the momentum with a shorthanded goal, stunning the Seawolves. The Badgers parlayed that energy into three … Read more
The No. 7 University of Minnesota (3-2-1 overall, 3-1-0 WCHA) men’s hockey team spoiled St. Cloud State University’s (2-3-1 overall, 1-2-1 WCHA) hopes for a weekend sweep, as the Gophers posted a 3-1 win at the National Hockey Center on Saturday. Minnesota scored three in the second period to ice the contest, as the Gophers … Read more
It had been a school-record 24 games since the typically suffocating defense of the Cornell Big Red had allowed three goals or more in a game. Saturday night at Lynah Rink, No. 10 Michigan State managed to beat goaltender David McKee four times in the second period alone en route to a 4-3 win and … Read more
Following Denver’s 3-1 loss to North Dakota on Friday, team captains Gabe Gauthier and Matt Carle had a discussion about what they needed to do to get the Pioneers back on track. “Gabe and I were talking last night about what it’s going to take,” Carle said. “We needed to step up ourselves and show … Read more